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Going head-to-head with Apple’s Game Centre, Google Play Games is the hub for all your Android gaming needs. With a great UI, both on tablets and phones, along with achievement tracking, score comparisons and obviously the ability to challenge your friends to matches, this is a must for any Android gamer.

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Mimicking one of the Moto X’s headline features, Active Notifications displays an icon on your devices display when a new email or text message comes through. You can also act on the notifications, swiping up to quickly reply and down to unlock, making the process pretty seamless. Sadly though, currently the app is only available for phones running Jelly Bean 4.3 – so basically just the Nexus 4 and 7 then.

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This swish, well designed and simple to use task managing app packs in useful features that could see it become your planning app of choice. Cloud syncing, text prediction and sharing capabilities really single it out from a crowded genre.

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Relive the classic PC side-scrolling adventure, with updated graphics and redesigned controls. There are 14 levels and five separate environments to guide the prince through, making this perfect for livening up those dull commutes,

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Taking BBC’s normally reliable weather data and putting it in a well designed and very functional app is always going to be a winner. It will automatically detect your location and then present you with up to the minute weather info, ensuring you’ll be suitably in the know if it’s about to chuck down with rain.

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An advert for how far Android gaming has come, Riptide is great fun, whilst also being pleasing on the eye. In classic racing game fashion, it’s the quickest who wins, yet the change from track to water mixes things up a bit. There’s a career mode, variety of race types, online battles and you can even upgrade your ship.

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